Tis The Season To…?

Oh No, Not the Bacon

By the hysterical force of their arguments you’d think that their firstborn had just been violently ripped from their clutches by men in balaclavas wearing boots to be ground up in a meat mulcher destined to be turned into dog tucker. But no, it’s worse than that. It is —wait for it — “insensitive” words.

One Dr. Shareena Hamzah of Swansea University claims that common sayings are offensive to minority groups.

Here are some nuggets from Dr. Hamzah:

‘Bring home the bacon’ and ‘killing two birds with one stone’ will go out of fashion to avoid offending animal lovers, according to Shareena Hamzah of Swansea University.

Now, I don’t know about you, but to me there’s something quite special about bacon.

Clearly, it was made by the gods and to advocate for anything that could remove this from my life is playing with fire. Take bacon from my life and there is a very real possibility that I turn into one of those blokes who sleeps all day, wakes at 8 PM, dresses in black, and proceeds to the gun range. Day in. Day out.

Some other nuggets from the good Dr who wants to replace:

‘Take the bull by the horns’ with ‘take the flower by the thorns’.

‘Killing two birds with one stone’ is, if anything, made more powerful by the animal-friendly alternative of ‘feeding two birds with one scone’.’

This dolt also wants to replace the phrase ‘to flog a dead horse’ with ‘to feed a fed horse’.

It’s a bad sign, and if you study history, you’ll notice that the same types of folks who are rallying around this are the same sort who rallied around Robespierre during the French revolution, Lenin during the Russian Revolution, Hitler in ‘30s Germany, and Mao in China.

Alcatraz, Move Over

You know how I’ve been promising you that Merkel created a problem which would ultimately lead to the very thing the EU was setup to conquer?

Mind What You Tweet

Well, check this out. A gent by the name of Anthony Furey was sent a chilling warning from Twitter.

His crime?

Posting cartoons of the prophet Mohammed. Note, not from ISIS or some lunatic fringe of jihadists. From Twitter.

“We are writing to inform you that Twitter has received official correspondence regarding your Twitter account, @anthonyfurey. The correspondence claims that the following content is in violation of Pakistan law: Section 37 of PECA-2016, Section 295 B and Section 295 C of the Pakistan penal code.”

So what exactly do the violations refer to?

Section 295 B concerns defiling the Qur’an and the punishment can be as severe as life imprisonment. Section 295 C focuses on derogatory content about Muhammad. That one comes with the death penalty.

You can read the entire saga here but realise this. We’re moving rapidly into a world that resembles much more of tribalism.

We’ll be seeing more of this, and while that’s taking place, we’ll be seeing more, much more of rising nationalism.